Free college for everyone.

The abundance of free money to go to college: GI Bill kicker, FAFSA, students loans (which are impossible to get rid of but given to virtually anyone), and the general over-saturation and ease with which people are given money to attend college are a big part of why tuition is so severely inflated in price right now.

I think what we need to do is investigate further into why tuition and books are overpriced. We need to stamp out any collusion, pull federal funding for FLUFF classes and those with no job market. We need to demand that any government funding given to schools is used for their education programs, not building stadiums and sports teams.

We then need to offer greater financial incentives to people going to school for careers that the US job market is severely short on, like doctors, based on your performance and with a fair evaluation of economic mobility. We also need it to be a limited number each year so that the market doesn't then become over-saturated with the incentivized schooling.

I strongly disagree with magazine size limitations and an assault weapons ban.

Assault weapons are a tiny minority of weapons used for murder. Banning them will have no significant impact on mass killings or murder rates, same for magazine size limits. Whether you have 10 bullets or 100, you can just carry more magazines -- or do like the Virginia Tech shooter did -- use dual pistols. That guy killed and injured more people than anyone else and he didn't use high capacity magazines or an 'assault rifle.' Assault rifles are a bogeyman. What we really need to do is prevent people like that from having ANY access to ANY gun at all. I won't feel the slightest bit safer if a person is shooting up a mall I'm in with a pistol that holds 10 rounds rather than a black-colored rifle that's stylized a certain way. Overwhelmingly, people who think an AWB of mag limits will have a meaningful impact on gun violence are severely uneducated on firearms.

What we need are better background checks, revisions to HIPAA laws to allow mental illness information to be shared more readily, for the background check system to have better infrastructure, and we must offer free gun safety courses to the general public at large.

Many of the weapons used in school shootings are also taken from irresponsible gun owning parents by minors that can't legally acquire them. I would also like to see federally funded gun safe distribution, installation and instructions on usage. This would deter home invasions, mass-killings performed by minors who otherwise have no access to firearms, and accidental shooting deaths.

I would also like to see a national firearms registry that is locked down under multiple protections preventing it from being released to the public through FOIA requests (some shithead "journalist" used the FOIA to post gun owners addresses online), from being appropriated to take away guns by a subsequent gun ban of some sort, or, generally, from being shared or accessed for any purpose whatsoever other than to identify the owner of a firearm recovered from a crime scene. It would need to have these provisions and protections otherwise no republican would ever vote for it, not in a million years. There are valid and real concerns over liberty erosion with a national firearms registry and how it could be abused to enforce later legislation or harass gun owners. There would have to be a ban on going door to door questioning owners of the same type or caliber of gun as what was used at a crime scene to prevent an abuse of that nature. No law abiding citizen should be harassed by police for a crime they didn't commit for coincidence.

I also want to see minimum wage raised, but I think $15 federally is too much for some of the states where cost of living is extremely low. We should instead tie minimum wage to cost of living in the area and raise it accordingly in places where the cost of living is much higher.

Of course, all these things require cooperation from congress, the senate AND the president, so it extends far beyond just Bernie Sanders.

I do really like the majority of his ideas on health care in the overall, and I'm a person who investigates fraud, waste and abuse in the pharmaceutical insurance industry, so I'm very happy about that.

We need to let medicare negotiate, regulate price inflation, ban drug ads to patients and doctors, ban copay payment patient poaching that diverts patients from generics to extremely expensive brand medications that have no advantages over generics, allow health insurance to sell across state lines, ban supplier exclusion deals from hospitals, allow the import of safe drugs from other countries, get more doctors into the work force .. Much of this would be fixed by universal health care, but all those things should be done ASAP in the interim.

I also really, really wish he'd get strongly behind pushing self-driving cars. Self driving cars could save americans 200-300 billion dollars a year on health care costs. That's up to 10% of all health care spending in the US. It would drive down health care premiums significantly, reduce the cost of auto insurance which would be very helpful to low and middle income Americans, save up to 30,000 lives a year (more than 3 times ALL gun murders combined), 2.2 million injuries, totalling to a cost of an estimated 1 trillion+ dollars out of the American economy. Self driving cars would be a MASSIVE economic boon and quality of life improvement in the U.S., possibly better than any other thing we could expect to achieve in the next decade. It's not just some fanboy or Tesla thing, it needs to be perfected and rolled out ASAP.

One thing I need to read about is energy. Solar, wind, etc, costs, ROIs, estimated rates of climate change, etc. ..